Word: psychos
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...rides are hell," Kathy says, "It's bad enough when we take unknown side streets and unmarked roads to get to the games, but the rides home are the worst. Imagine fifteen smelly girls packed into a van not made to hold half that many with a psycho at wheel...that's a road trip...
George Corsillo, the New York City artist who designed the jackets for Ellis' previous novels, refused the assignment for American Psycho. "I had to draw the line," said Corsillo. "I felt disgusted with myself for reading it." Many Simon & Schuster employees were disturbed by the manuscript, copies of which have circulated around town. Some women staffers are especially outraged by Ellis' descriptions of atrocities against females. But no one wants to say so on the record. Here is a hot property that may be too hot to handle or, says a staffer who requests anonymity, "too hot to even talk...
...caught in a profit squeeze like many other U.S. publishers, grossing out readers could mean netting a big return on Ellis' advance, estimated at $300,000. Yet American Psycho could backfire on the accountants. Penguin turned down the chance to publish the paperback edition. Executive editor Nan Graham is relatively diplomatic: "I had to read for an hour and a half before getting to the bad stuff. I was bored and annoyed." Is a new paperback deal being negotiated elsewhere? The terse reply from S&S's subsidiary-rights department: "We're working on it. No takers. No comment...
...would be naive to think that American Psycho will not find its market, although some stores might be shy about displaying the book prominently, and an Ellis promotion tour might run into resistance. Even Geraldo might take a pass...
...write superficially about superficiality and disgustingly about the disgusting and call it, as Ellis does, a challenge to his readers' complacency does violence to his audience and to the fundamental nature of his craft. So when editor Asahina comes to his writer's defense by claiming that American Psycho "succeeds in taking readers into the mind of a madman," the obvious question is, How long do they have to stay there? Ten pages, 50 pages, 150 pages? Less than zero...